Booker Prize (UK)
Established in 1968 by multinational conglomerate Booker McConnell, The Booker McConnell Prize recognizes the best contemporary fiction novel published in the United Kingdom each year. Since its inception, The Booker Prize (www.bookerprize.co.uk), as it is more commonly known, has gained a reputation as one of the leading literary landmarks in both the UK and the United States.

2004 The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
1999 Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
1998 Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
1997 The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
1996 Last Orders, Graham Swift
1995 The Ghost Road, Pat Barker
1994 How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle
1992 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth
1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri
1990 Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt
1989 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
1987 Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively
1986 The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis
1985 The Bone People, Keri Hulme
1984 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
1983 Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
1982 Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally
1981 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
1980 Rites of Passage, William Golding
1979 Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
1977 Staying On, Paul Scott
1976 Saville, David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer
Holiday, Stanley Middleton
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
1972 G.: A Novel, John Berger
1971 In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens
1969 Something to Answer For, P.H. Newby

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